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JOHANNESBURG, March 20 – A record 48 political parties will contest the May 8 national elections, 19 more parties on the ballot paper compared to the last general elections in 2014. Leaders of the political parties gathered in Johannesburg on Wednesday to sign the mandatory electoral code of conduct. IEC chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo […]

JOHANNESBURG, March 20 – The pathologist who was issued with a warrant of arrest after failing to appear in court to testify in the Pitch Black murder trial, will return to South Africa on Sunday. On Wednesday the Johannesburg magistrate court again postponed the bail hearing of hip hop artist Thulani Ngcobo, popularly known as […]

PRETORIA, March 20 – Thuso Phala has left SuperSport United, the ABSA Premiership club announced on Wednesday. Phala joined Matsatsantsa on a free transfer from Platinum Stars in July 2013 and was part of the team that won the Telkom Knockout in 2014 and back-to-back Nedbank Cup wins in 2016 and 2017 and an MTN8 […]

JOHANNESBURG, March 20 – African National Congress senior party member Jackson Mthembu has posted a heartbreaking tweet in which he reveals that his daughter has committed suicide. “My eldest daughter, Khwezi Mthembu, last night committed suicide at our Pelican parliamentary village home in #Capetown. We are in deep pain. We don’t know what led her to […]

PRETORIA, March 19 – The Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) arrested a group of touts who invaded the Winternest licencing offices, north of Pretoria, tearing down posters warning members of the public against corruption, spokesperson Isaac Mahamba said on Tuesday. “The runners went inside, destroying property and removing posters that were pasted to alert the […]

JOHANNESBURG, March 19 – Eleven people have been injured in a collision between a car and mini-bus taxi in Krugersdorp, paramedics said on Tuesday. Netcare 911 said that on Monday at 16:30 paramedics responded to reports of the accident on Paardekraal Drive in Chancliff AH. “Reports from the scene indicate that a light motor vehicle […]

JOHANNESBURG, March 19 – South Africa’s state-owned electricity company Eskom continued implementing rolling blackouts on Tuesday as its crippled generating units struggled to supply enough power in a crisis likely to further hurt the ailing economy. The government said public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan and Eskom chairman Jabu Mabuza would address the media on the current electricity […]

PRETORIA, 18 March – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday experienced first hand the daily struggles of commuters after being stuck for hours on a train with disgruntled commuters while on the election campaign trail. Ramaphosa and the commuters boarded the train at Mabopane Station in Pretoria before 8am. The train was more than an hour […]

JOHANNESBURG, March 18 – A 29-year-old female paramedic, arrested after cocaine was found in an ambulance she was driving, is expected to appear in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Police spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Amanda Funani said investigators received information about a paramedic in possession of drugs. The woman was stopped along the R510 driving […]

JOHANNESBURG,March 18 – Rights group Sonke Gender Justice on Monday called for an urgent independent review into Gugu Ncube’s allegations of sexual harassment at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Ncube was last Wednesday arrested outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria — where President Cyril Ramaphosa has his offices — where she had staged a […]

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